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Ecclesiastes 2:12

“Then I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly; for what more can the king’s successor do than what has already been accomplished?”
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10Anything my eyes desired, I did not deny myself. I refused my heart no pleasure. For my heart took delight in all my work, and this was the reward for all my labor.

11Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun.

12Then I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly; for what more can the king’s successor do than what has already been accomplished?

13And I saw that wisdom exceeds folly, just as light exceeds darkness:

14The wise man has eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also came to realize that one fate overcomes them both.

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